Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. The LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night, and turned the sea in...to dry land; and the waters were divided. The Israelites went into the sea on dry ground, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists..., there may be moods--moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former--but no opinion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The woman who is rearing a family of children; the woman who labors in the schoolroom; the woman who, in her retired chamber, earn...s, with her needle, the mite, which contributes to the intellectual and moral elevation of her Country; even the humble domestic, whose example and influence may be moulding and forming young minds, while her faithful services sustain a prosperous domestic state;Meach and all may be animated by the consciousness, that they are agents in accomplishing the greatest work that ever was committed to human responsibility. It is the building of a glorious temple, whose base shall be coextensive with the bounds of the earth, whose summit shall pierce the skies, whose splendor shall beam on all lands; and those who hew the lowliest stone, as much as those who carve the highest capital, will be equally honored, when its top-stone shall be laid, with new rejoicings of the morning stars, and shoutings of the sons of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Young people of high school age can actually feel themselves changing. Progress is almost tangible. It's exciting. It stimulates m...ore progress. Nevertheless, growth is not constant and smooth. Erik Erikson quotes an aphorism to describe the formless forming of it. "I ain't what I ought to be. I ain't what I'm going to be, but I'm not what I was."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I heartily wish you, in the plain home-spun style, a great number of happy new years, well employed in forming both your mind and ...your manners, to be useful and agreeable to yourself, your country, and your friends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The gulf between employers and the employed is constantly widening, and classes are rapidly forming, one comprising the very rich ...and powerful, while in another are found the toiling poor. As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully-restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »